[TEST] VirtualBox 3.1.4 OpenGL Quick Test

I quickly tested the latest release of VirtualBox (the version 3.1.4) to see how this virtual machine works with some of my graphics cards tools.

So I created a WinXP SP2 32-bit guest (the virtual machine is called the guest) while the host (my real physical computer) is under Windows 7 64-bit. The host graphics card is a GeForce GTS 250 with ForceWare 196.34. And to take advantage of the 3D acceleration in the guest, I also installed the Guest Additions. See my first test of VirtualBox 3.0 for more information and theory about VirtualBox.

And I was really suprised to see that now (compared to my first test), the latest versions of GPU Caps Viewer and FurMark work fine with VirtualBox 3.1.4. Great!

I was impressed too! I’ve recently tried VmWare 7.1 that has DX acceleration (at last!) but still doesn’t have OpenGL. it has software OpenGL through Mesa. But anyway when I launched some 3D tests under virtual WinXP I was like WOW!